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“No matter how it seems now, I must confess: I loved him. I do not think that I will ever love anyone like that again. And this might be a great relief if I did not also know that, when the knife has fallen, Giovanni, if he feels anything will feel relief.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“If i could have done it all again, i would have love you better. But i could not have loved you more.”
― Sue Zhao

“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life